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What does it take to identify critical science & tech capability gaps—and then build organizations dedicated to addressing them? @adammarblestone.bsky.social, @anastasiag.bsky.social, Mary Wang, & @josephfridman.bsky.social on creating @convergentresearch.bsky.social: issues.org/focused-rese...

Earlier this year, @parallelsq.bsky.social hosted a research fest. We began with a broad perspective: ◾️ A century of remarkable progress! Proteomics drove conceptual discoveries and medical treatments. Listen to what's next! Proteomics: The arc of progress youtu.be/Sc2QLXb84XI?...

Proud of @e11bio.bsky.social's early progress here, and excited for so much more to come (that I've seen previews of as a FRO board member 😍). Optics + expansion + barcoding + AI + molecules = beginning of infinity for scalable brain circuit mapping, with wide implications across science.

👀 Our latest Substack is live – discover: – The launch of Innovator Circles – Insights into the FRO-Founder Residency with @convergentresearch.bsky.social – A Q&A with @micromotility.bsky.social on natural computation in single-celled microorganisms + more ↓ link.aria.org.uk/sepsubstack-bluesky

Join our team and help realize a bold vision.

Earlier this year, Imprint came out of stealth on the TED Mainstage to share our vision: What if the immune system holds the key to curing chronic diseases—and we just need the tools to read it? We’re building those tools. Our TED talk is now live 👉 go.ted.com/beckbrachman

This June, we kicked off our first-ever UK FRO Founder Residency as an Activation Partner for the United Kingdom’s Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), @aria-research.bsky.social. Read more: www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/inside-the...

This week's Science to Impact symposium at Ohio State hosted experts in all kinds of science communication! Grateful to have helped organize this event and heard from these minds in one room. 🧠 🧪

📣 We're excited to share the new lean-lang.org! Relaunching our website was a key deliverable in our Year 2 roadmap to provide "improved navigation and access to valuable content, resources, and tools." We hope you like it! #LeanLang #LeanProver

What is consciousness? What are the challenges of studying it scientifically? Can we ‘dissolve’ them? @anilseth.bsky.social gives us some answers in this new #INMINDS interview for @cienciacog.bsky.social about *problems of consciousness (and how to handle them)*! www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2549

Anastasia Garnick from @convergentresearch.bsky.social presents the “gap map” and how Focussed Research Organisations (FROs) can help #MetaScience2025 www.gap-map.org

Two-day, fully-funded opportunity led by @nytimes.com editor James Ryerson & featuring scientists @lisafeldmanbarrett.com and @daviddesteno.bsky.social and one-man band @josephfridman.bsky.social. Applications for the next workshop open till July 7th! (2/2)

Had a great time attending the Beyond the Ivory Tower workshop at @northeasternu.bsky.social! If you're a scientist or philosopher looking to turn your ideas into short articles for a general audience, check it out! (1/2) www.beyondtheivorytower.com

"Academic research groups and startups are essential drivers of scientific progress. But some projects, like the Hubble Space Telescope or the Human Genome Project, are too big for any one academic lab or loose consortium..."

Also: we’re #hiring! 🎊To learn more about Imprint and view open roles on our team, visit imprint.org. 🤝 If you are a clinical or computational research group interested in partnering with Imprint, please follow us for future updates and opportunities. #Immunology #Biotech #BiotechResearch

IMPRINT is the first Focused Research Organization (FRO) in New York City. We are supported by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, Convergent Research, Peter Reinhart, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation. @convergentresearch.bsky.social

With teams in Europe and North America, we are building experimental and machine learning tools to identify the hidden causes of and cures for chronic diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

The immune system is not just an army — it’s also an archive. IMPRINT aims to decode this archive using an innovative forensic immunology approach, enabling new diagnostics, treatments, and cures for conditions ranging from autoimmune disorders to mental illness.

🧵 Today, IMPRINT, a pioneering new nonprofit initiative, is announcing $15 million in philanthropic funding to advance our work to decode the body's immune memory and uncover the causes of chronic diseases. #Immunology #Biotech #BiotechResearch

You can now download the @convergentresearch.bsky.social Gap Map data at gap-map.org/api/ 🗾 🔬 🗺️ 🔭 Feel free to pull it into your AI assistant of choice and query away when you're feeling hungry for some fundamental R&D talks with Claude or Geppett-o3 or Gemini this weekend --

Looking for a job in immunology or biotech research? ✨IMPRINT is #hiring! ✨ Join us to help revolutionize how we decode the body’s immune memory, uncover the causes of chronic diseases, and drive breakthroughs in autoimmunity and neuropsychiatric research. #BiotechJobs #Immunology #sciencejobs

Only 3 more workshops left before our grant ends in July 2026! We've helped hundreds of academics publish hundreds of pieces. It's been a blast. One more workshop in 2025 this October.

The team is very excited to see all the proposals for UK Focused Research Organizations! We've partnered with @aria-research.bsky.social to seek proposals for FROs that could unlock transformative progress in ARIA’s opportunity spaces: www.convergentresearch.org/frost-uk Apply by Friday March 28!

There are so many inspiring examples of scientific roadmaps out there: this post was our quick way of introducing new explorers of the scientific landscape to this fascinating genre. Expect more from us in terms of releasing roadmaps & thinking soon and let us know which of your favorites we missed!

"There are bottlenecks choking progress in virtually every scientific field, and you can identify these with a good roadmap." - @adammarblestone.bsky.social Out now on our new Substack, Essential Technology: convergentresearch.substack.com/p/scientific...

"Organizations like @hhmijanelia.bsky.social, the @arcinstitute.org, and a whole class of nonprofit start-ups called focused research organizations are instead using philanthropic dollars to build tools that could accelerate scientific progress." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...

some personal news: i've joined @convergentresearch.bsky.social to head up comms! it's, uh, a good time to grow orgs that make scientific public goods if you have ideas, let's chat 🚀🔬🧠🧬🌱🧪

This op-ed writing workshop for academics, “Beyond the Ivory Tower” looks good — apps for next cohort due 3/3. Apply! www.beyondtheivorytower.com cc @josephfridman.bsky.social

We'll talk about everything from essay form, to pitching, to what public writing means for your day job in academe/research. Plus, Jamie will workshop a piece you write in an individual meeting. Our alums are finding success. You can see some examples here: www.beyondtheivorytower.com/pieces 2/2

Too often, scholarly work remains siloed behind the ivy covered walls. If you're a scientist (social, physical, or life) or philosopher looking to share knowledge with a wider audience who has lots of questions, applications for our next writing workshop led by NYT's James Ryerson is now open. 1/2

english is a language that, as john rickford says, bends like a willow, does not snap like an oak.

Want to see if your research has had an impact on public policy? Enter your info in SagePolicyProfiles to see the citations of your own publications in policy documents. You get a profile page. Here is mine as an example: policyprofiles.sagepub.com/profile/5920...

I heard there were academics here, so please help me share this: Learn to write short pieces, for wide audiences, about the big questions: www.beyondtheivorytower.com is accepting applications for our Feb 28/March 1st workshop. YOU'll get two days of instruction, $2k, years of follow-on support!

I heard there were academics here, so please help me share this: Learn to write short pieces, for wide audiences, about the big questions: www.beyondtheivorytower.com is accepting applications for our Feb 28/March 1st workshop. YOU'll get two days of instruction, $2k, years of follow-on support!

Since H5N1 flu is finally getting news coverage, here’s a looong 🧵 on what I learned while working on it for a few months at Ginkgo Biosecurity (I don’t work there anymore and this thread is on no one’s behalf) Everything here is info you can get elsewhere but just to lay it all out insomnia style

What if Jurassic Park, but perfume👃🌺👃🌸👃🌹👃 wearefuturesociety.com